August 11, 2013

Jennifer Firestone and Lisa Fink

Jennifer Firestone is the author of Flashes and Holiday (both from Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books). She co-edited with Dana Teen Lomax Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books), a year-long experiment documenting letter exchanges between 14 poet pairs. Her poems has been published in Drunken Boat, How2, Dusie, 580 Split, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, Poetry Salzburg Review, among others, and she has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Songs, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. Firestone is Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College (The New School).

Lisa Fink is a poet, translator, teacher, naturalist, and eco-flâneur. Her poetry chapbook Her Disco was published by dancing girl press in early 2013. Other poems and criticism have been published in magazines like [PANK], Ecotone, Rain Taxi, Jellyroll Magazine and Forklift, Ohio. She grew up in the rural Midwest and currently lives, writes, and walks in Portland.

fromFLASHES

We see morning flicker like the new egocentric.

We say orange is immediate.We pile strappy objects, gloss our big skinhere we come to the wildernesswhere everything is brick and stonetrees are really smaller infrastructurestransmitters, shiny poles concealing communications.The flowers are people flying on bikesthe air is boxes lived inand space is a worduntil that itself is formed.